30 posts categorized "Camtasia"

Thursday, 08 November 2012

I bet this is sorted in Camtasia Studio 8 but I found a patch which makes more memory available to the older Camtasia Studio 7 running on Windows Vista or 7. I ran into problems producing a 1920x1200 production getting an “E_OUT_OF_MEMORY error message”. After applying the patch it produced just fine.

Always more than a simple screen recorder, Camtasia Studio will help you generate sophisticated, effective screencasts—faster, easier, and with more consistency.

Enhanced Captioning Support : Easily create 508 compliant closed and open captions, and help viewers with hearing disabilities or language barriers better understand the content in your video.

Speech-to-Text Transcription : By utilizing Windows Speech Recognition, Camtasia Studio can automatically turn what you say into captions! You can fix anything missed in the transcription. And the more you use it, the better it gets!

Import/Export Captioning Files : Now you can export your audio and get it transcribed into a caption file, then import the transcription back into your video. It’s perfect if you ever need to translate your captions and localize your videos.

Create Searchable Video : Produce videos in Flash or send to Screencast.com and let your viewers jump directly to the content they need! All it takes is a quick search of a word or phrase the presenter said or displayed on a slide in the presentation.

Integration with Camtasia Relay : Harness the editing power of Camtasia Studio in Camtasia Relay! Edit Camtasia Relay videos in Camtasia Studio, then send back to Camtasia Relay for distribution. They play nicely together so your content flows seamlessly from one Camtasia to another.

iPad Output : Produce your Camtasia Studio videos for the iPad with a brand new iPad production preset. Your viewers will thank you while they watch in high-quality, on-the-go.

64-bit Codec Support : With both a 32-bit and 64-bit TSCC codec in Camtasia Studio, you’ll be able to export your recording files to a wider range of 3rd party applications, and keep the high-quality look you love.

Already using Camtasia Studio 7? If so, these great features are free for you! The next time you start Camtasia Studio, you'll be prompted to upgrade.

Tuesday, 03 August 2010

Unfortunately I missed much of the live action but the (crazy?) Camtasia team captured their 24 hour, 24 episode screencast marathon to be reviewed at leisure. An impressive variety of artistic & technical advice delivered in a non-stop day!

Tuesday, 18 May 2010

The Revit Project Browser is great for bundling all the assets of a Revit Project into a single list. Unfortunately it’s “one view scroll, scroll scroll” interface can be tedious to document. If you want to use in a project standard or just share with collaborators (without sending the whole project) it can take several “page” snapshots to capture.

With the Scrolling Capture “Capture Entire Area” option Snagit 10 makes even long or restricted windows easy to snag:

Click in the Browser so it has focus

Print Screen to start Snagit

Then choose the “Capture Entire Area” option and wait!

Snagit automatically scrolls the entire length of the control and, now it gets clever, if required scrolls across & repeats the process to capture the full window width. The resulting “strip snags” are compiled into a single image and presented in the Snagit Editor. The Camtasia capture below shows the process, the resulting 220 x 1088 pixel snag is on the right.

To give an idea how ActiveWords changes your computing (and why I can’t stand using a PC without it) the title for this post was created by entering “awf, camf and w7f”, letting ActiveWords do the rest. In a bit over a month it has saved close to an hour of typing and that’s just on my home PC.

Caught out by a real inkPad

ActiveWords runs fine on Windows 7 64 but I inadvertently installed it’s inkpad component. The ActiveWords inkpad enables everything you see Buzz do in the demo to be done with a pen. Scribble CNN and the browser will open, then navigate to their site. Try that on your iPad…

It wouldn’t be a problem on a Tablet PC but my old Dell monitor doesn’t support direct input! The inkpad agent was easily disabled until my new touch enabled widescreen monitor arrives (yeah right!)

Sunday, 20 January 2008

I had a large 40 minute video file with several demos and wanted to refer to parts of it in a presentation. That’s simple to open the file with a hyperlink but I didn’t want to be searching for the correct section during the presentation and there were no chapter markers.

After deciding the simplest solution would be creating a separate file for each part I set to work in Camtasia. My intention was to create a project then export each demo to create a separate file. That was going to be easier if they had a marker so went through and added them first.

I then discovered on “production” you get offered the the choice to include markers and, if you want, create a separate file for each section between them! Click the button, wander off for a Friday afternoon coffee, come back to find the folder of split files. Perfect!

Note: These images show Camtasia 4, the current version should have the same features but the UI may differ.

I wrote this way back on 07-29-2006, but just found it sitting in drafts, so here tis!

Saturday, 19 January 2008

Sometimes the obvious isn’t very obvious. Following thousands of blogs means I’m often leaving comments. Even responding to comments on my own blog requires the same process as readers use. It’s standard to require name, email, and optionally site URL, when commenting so I set up ActiveWords for each of those. Now I just type a few ActiveWords (rcf, @b, rbu) to enter all the details.

It was only today that I realised nearly all blogs request these details in the same order. It took only a few seconds to create this simple ActiveWords script;

<RCF><TAB><WORD:@b><TAB><RBU><TAB>

Like the ActiveWord below @b has “Confirmation Flag” ticked. This means it requires confirmation with the ActiveWords Key to activate. This type of ActiveWord is called in scripts with <WORD:#> format rather than the normal <#>.

You could just enter the name etc directly in the script but calling ActiveWords means if something changes, say my blog email, editing one ActiveWord updates it everywhere it’s nested.

Now it’s just “rbc” to leave a comment. That’s 59 potentially error ridden keystrokes without ActiveWords reduced to 3 and no chance for a mistake. Now it’s done it seems so obvious. So why, I wonder, did it take so long to think of?

That presentation was a mix of AutoCAD, PowerPoint, Corel animation and live video but it was Camtasia Studio which pulled it all together. It’s a brilliant way to share/capture information and just before Autodesk University 2007 TechSmith released the latest version, Camtasia Studio 5.

I’ve only had a quick look at the trial version so far but one new feature alone justifies an upgrade for me. If you are not recording full screen Camtasia can now resize the application window and recording area to a selected size. This is brilliant when you are recording several clips to be merged especially if, like me, you run higher than average screen resolution.

It’s best for file size and compatibility to record screencasts at 640x480, 800x600 or 1024x800 resolution, or less. Previously this required fussing about with graphics settings or “hand sizing” windows which meant getting consistent sizes could be tricky. Now you just set your desired production size in the recorder, pick the target and let Camtasia coordinate the window and clip mask to suit. Very nice!

“You'll see over the next ten days how we’ve added major new features during each of the three stages of production - recording, editing and production – that have benefits for both the screencast creator and the viewers.”